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Objectivity in the Media
Objectivity: Expressing or involving the use of facts without distortion by personal feelings or prejudices. (Webster) If objectivity is to write a piece of work without distorting it with ones personal views and opinions, is it rationally ever achievable? To be a good reporter or journalist, EJ Dionne says you must be neutral but investigative. ...
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Journalism & the Communication of Ideas
The New York Times recently ran an article about how journalism went from print-published giants to brat-pack op-ed bloggers who held more sway over politics than traditional journalists. The debate between ‘journalism’ and ‘blogging’ or civilian commentary has a bit of a long history, but can be summed up as that Journalism (with a capital ...
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What are the different ways of designing?
The field of design is littered with tons of different subfields, everything from industrial design, to fashion and product design, to communication and service design. Ultimatly, all these different fields are directed by an end goal and a certain set of constraints. Rather than asking what are the different fields, I am interested in: what ...
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Design Tools 2: Basics of Behavior Change
Whether you a designing a product or service, your end goal is some sort of behavior change, also known as getting someone to do something: “Use my product instead of something else”, or “do this instead of that” are the essential goals you’re trying to achieve. The same thing applies to public policy: “how do ...
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A visit to a Waldorf School NYC
This is another visit from my Learning through Design course. This one was at the Waldorf School on E79th st. Again, not at all a formulated thought but rather a summary of the visit and initial reactions.
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A visit to the iSchool in NYC.
http://nycischool.org/ In my class Learning through Design, which is a class exploring how Design Thinking has been used in various education models. Part of the goal is to go visit some schools in NYC that are progressive or can serve as good case studies. The iSchool was one of them. Here is my response and ...
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Blooms model and Governmental Conspiracy?
The following is an image from Wikipedia showing Blooms Taxonomy. If you look at the goals of standard K-12 education you see that for the most part, they are teaching low order thinking, and only in universities are we getting to learn high order thinking. However, if you take the article I cited in my ...
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Is there a point to college?
“A provocative new book, “Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses,” makes a strong case that for a large portion of the nation’s seemingly successful undergraduates the years in college barely improve their skills in critical thinking, complex reasoning and writing.” This is just another reason to begin to rethink the education system in general. ...